Soldier Pile Wall Florida Project
CHANCE helical tieback anchors provide lateral support for many retaining wall designs including this challenging construction site. Major renovations to Rickards High School in Tallahassee, Florida...
Rocscience Inc.'s Rocscience | Seminar Series: African Geotechnical Legends -Dr. Thomas Stacey begins on Oct 4th 2022
Rocscience Inc.'s Rocscience | Seminar Series: African Geotechnical Legends -Dr. Thomas Stacey begins on Oct 4th 2022
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Adelaide Hills dam: fears of collapse
An emergency flood warning has been issued for a South Australian town due to the “high risk” of a dam wall collapsing. The privately owned dam on the edge of an Adelaide Hills town remains at risk...
Ground Improvement System over Deep Foundation Systems Revere Beach Project
The 35,000 square-foot, 7-story residential building was planned at a property underlain by variable-density urban fill and organics, typical of the Boston region. Given the building loads of over 60...
How to Determine the Basic Soil Parameters
In order to obtain stresses and deformations in a geotechnical analysis, finite element analyses require stiffness parameters in addition to the traditional cohesion and friction angle strength par...
Rocscience | Growing our Slide2 Manufacturer Library with Synteen Geogrids
Rocscience adds Synteen Geogrids to its 2D Limit Equilibrium tool, Slide2. Toronto, ON: Expanding our Slide2 Geogrids Library to include manufacturers from around the world means more flexibility and...
Industry Section
South Shore Water Reclamation Facility Excavation Support Project
The South Shore Water Reclamation Facility on the coast of Long Island, New York, is undergoing a major upgrade to redirect treated effluent away from the Western Bays – where nitrogen-rich effluent...
Rocscience | Settle3's New Section Designer
Settle3 is one of the industry's leading 3D Settlement and Foundation Analysis tools. It allows you to analyze vertical consolidation and settlement under foundations and can be used for applications...
Geoprofessional Finalists in the 2022 Going Digital Awards in Infrastructure
The annual awards program honors the extraordinary work of Bentley software users advancing infrastructure design, construction, and operations throughout the world. Eleven independent jury panels se...
Bentley Systems to Host iTwin Developer Conference, Building Software for a Better World, Sept. 20
This virtual conference brings together the growing community of developers who are building digital twin applications for the design, construction, and operation of the world’s infrastructure. With...
Rocscience | Introducing Thermal Module in RS2
Rocscience's flagship FEM software, RS2 is now capable of performing Thermal Analysis. The thermal module in RS2 is a new feature designed to simulate 2D thermal analysis for various geotechnical str...
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Geotechnical Engineers can now publish technical related content on GeoWorld, get DOIs, and reach thousands of geo-professionals
GeoWorld, the professional networking platform for geotechnical engineers, recently launched a brand-new resources section, which expands the classic blog functionality. It is now possible for every...
Upcoming Events
Rocscience | Seminar Series: African Geotechnical Legends -Dr. Thomas Stacey
This free seminar brought to you by Rocscience will showcase Geotechnical Legends from Africa. In this session, we have Dr. Thomas Stacey from the University of Witwatersrand talk about 'A Fortunate...
Bentley Coffee Corner: Geotechnical Analysis - Combining a PLAXIS analysis with SLOPE/W’s Limit Equilibrium for slope stability
For the determination of a Factor of Safety the strength reduction method is a very powerful tool to obtain the most critical slip surface. However, there may be circumstances in which more informati...
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Publications
Combined geotechnical – geophysical soil investigations: a case study from Budapest Effect of Rock Matrix with Circular Opening on Strength Characteristics Using Triaxial System with Partial Unconfined Condition Determination of the undrained shear strength of organic soils using the cone penetration test and Marchetti’s flat dilatometer test Numerical investigation of soil behaviour under road structures Geotechnical field and laboratory tests comparison on the M100 motorway T181 tunnel The stability analysis of a steep slope at a lake; Hungary PMT some insights Liquefaction potential evaluation SPT based Prediction of permeability coefficient for Quaternary Sediments of Drava River using different empirical correlations Laboratory Investigation of Old Bay Clay Consolidation Strain Rate and Creep Behavior
Education
Geotechnical Engineering Practice in the Mycenaen Civilization (1600-1100 BC)
by Dimitrios Zekkos, John Manousakis, Adda G. Athanasopoulos Reference: Zekkos, D., Manousakis, J., Athanasopoulos, A. (2005), “Geotechnical engineering practice in the Mycenaean Civilization (1600...
Buchanan Lecture 2021: video available
The following material has been provided by ASCE President and Distinguished Professor and Buchanan Chair Holder Jean-Louis Briaud of Texas A&M University. The 2021 Buchanan Lecture, held on Nove...
New ISSMGE TC304 Course on “Probability Analysis in Civil Engineering” by Dr. Jie Zhang
Professor Jie Zhang of Tongji University (China) is delivering a course on Probability Analysis in Civil Engineering under the auspices of the Virtual University of the International Society of Soil...
In Memoriam: Distinguished Professor Paul G. Marinos (1944-2021)
The following obituary was prepared and presented by the International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment (IAEG). May the earth be light to you, rest in peace Prof. Paul Mari...
Numerical Modelling: The Soft-Soil and Soft-Soil Creep Model
The following was prepared by Dr. Ronald B.J. Brinkgreve, and first presented by Virtuosity. The term ‘soft soil’ is associated with fine-grained soils (mostly normally-consolidated clays). For examp...
Depth of GW in oxidized zone
By Ckhckh, 09 Feb 2010
soil erosion model26 May 2022
UCS test of rockBy Avishek Shrestha, 05 Apr 2022
Books
2022 Geotechnical Business Directory
This unique annual business directory includes 26,000+ professionals and 1,000+ companies and organizations in the geotechnical engineering profession. Powered by GeoWorld, the professional network fo...
Practical Soil Dynamics
The objective of this book is to fill some of the gaps in the existing engineering codes and standards related to soil dynamics, concerning issues in earthquake engineering and ground vibrations, by...
Practical Guide to Green Technology for Ground Engineering
Over the last 50 years there has been rapid development of construction techniques, analytical methods and materials for use in ground engineering. One of the major techniques which has been developed...